Kurt Oehlmann
Curt Oehlmann (born August 21, 1886 in Prenzlau ; † July 26, 1948 in the Vorkuta labor camp , northern Russia) was a German medical officer (two-star general).
Life
Oehlmann studied medicine at the Kaiser Wilhelms Academy for military medical education . With Erich Hippke and Willy Vorkastner (and Otto von Schjerning ) he became a member of the Pépinière-Corps Franconia in 1907 . From the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität zu Berlin he was awarded a Dr. med. PhD .
Before 1930 he was a senior staff doctor in Rostock. In the army (Wehrmacht) he was promoted to general physician on March 1, 1939 and to general staff physician on June 1, 1942 . During the German-Soviet War he was an army doctor (IVb) in the 2nd Army . The day after their surrender, on May 9, 1945, he was taken prisoner by the Soviets on the Hela peninsula . Via Butyrka and Camp No. 48 in the Ivanovo Region, he was taken to POW Camp No. 27 in Krasnogorsk , Moscow Oblast, on May 24, 1945 . He was arrested on November 4, 1945 and held in Prison No. 1 of the Ministry of Interior of the USSR in Kursk . Went to the Vorkuta labor camp with other generals , he was sentenced on November 15, 1947 by the military tribunal of the troops of the Interior Ministry of the USSR (MVD) of Kursk Oblast to 25 years in a corrective labor camp. After three years of forced labor in the brick factory 2 of Vorkuta, he died in the gulag . Horst Hennig and Rüdiger Döhler asked the military chief prosecutor in Moscow for Oehlmann's rehabilitation. The request was rejected after a three-year procedure. According to the extensive file situation, Oehlmann was charged with war crimes (procurement of drugs at the expense of the population of Kursk); the circumstances of his probably violent death remained unclear.
Honors
- War Merit Cross (1939) 2nd class with swords
- War Merit Cross 1st Class with Swords
- German Cross in Silver (October 22, 1944)
See also
Individual evidence
- ↑ a b Vorkuta prisoner of war camp (GenWiki)
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1960, 60/434.
- ↑ Dissertation: On aphonia after larynx injuries with the outcome in healing .
- ↑ Kösener Corpslisten 1930, 66/423.
- ↑ Великая Отечественная война. Генералы Третьего рейха, его союзников и сателлитов в советском плену
- ↑ Wladislaw Hedeler , Horst Hennig: Black pyramids, red slaves - the strike in Vorkuta in the summer of 1953 . GoogleBooks
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SURNAME | Oehlmann, Kurt |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Oehlmann, Curt Otto (full name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | German general staff doctor |
DATE OF BIRTH | August 21, 1886 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Prenzlau |
DATE OF DEATH | July 26, 1948 |
Place of death | Vorkuta labor camp |